OVHcloud APAC expansion reaches India

OVHcloud has launched its first data centre in India, as part of the company’s APAC expansion. Two additional centres — in Australia and Singapore —  are planned by next year.

The new Mumbai facility is part of OVHcloud’s global strategic plan to build 15 new sites by 2024 and comes at a crucial time for the region, which has witnessed an uptick in cloud adoption amid sharper regulatory scrutiny over data sovereignty and environmental concerns.

Cloud-enabled digital transformation in India is driving explosive growth of the national digital economy, which already outpaces growth of the larger economy by a factor of 2.4. In addition, the government-led Digital India is underpinning a concerted push for digital transformation on a national scale, with business and government sectors both set to increase their reliance on the cloud.

“Since the expansion of our presence in the Asia–Pacific market, the region has experienced phenomenal growth of its digital economy. India, Australia and Singapore remain critical markets that are driving this growth from a business transformation and digital innovation perspective,” said Michel Paulin, Chief Executive Officer, OVHcloud.

“Data sovereignty and sustainability will continue to be key priorities that have to be balanced with rapidly increasing digital needs. We are confident that new data centres will further help OVHcloud’s goal of becoming the cloud provider of choice for customers in the region, in enabling them to remain compliant while benefiting from our unique proposition of an open, reversible and sustainable cloud.”